That's the Ticket

Travel sites are booming, as more people
take on the responsibility of finding their own deals

By

J.C. Conklin

Updated July 12, 1999 11:59 p.m. ET

Kathryn McGrath has traveled into the future. And she likes it -- sort of.

For the past five months, the 24-year-old assistant television producer from New York has used the Internet to book all of her airplane tickets. Her main motivation: avoiding travel agents, whom she felt didn't work very hard to get her the best deal.